Homemade Bailey’s Irish Cream is smooth and velvety with a subtle hint of coffee flavor. Perfect to sip, or to add some spike to your dessert.

This Drink Recipe is sweet and creamy, like a boozy dessert that’s perfect for any Irish whiskey lovers. For more delicious drink recipes, try Homemade Eggnog next.

Sabrina’s Homemade Bailey’s Irish Cream Recipe

Bailey’s Irish Cream Liqueur is a chocolatey, silky dream. This homemade version is just as delicious and only takes a couple of minutes to make. You can serve the rich liqueur on its own, or add it to Hot Chocolate, coffee, or Ice Cream. Pouring a little into a sweet drink or dessert is the perfect way to add a boozy kick, and extra creamy flavor. Don’t forget to check out my variations at the bottom.

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Ingredients

▢ 3 cups Jameson whiskey
▢ 28 ounces sweetened condensed milk , 2 cans
▢ 1/4 cup chocolate syrup
▢ 3 cups heavy cream
▢ 1 tablespoon instant espresso

Instructions

In a large mixing bowl add whiskey, condensed milk and chocolate syrup.
Whisk well until smooth and creamy.
Add in heavy cream and instant espresso.
Whisk well until smooth and creamy.
Store in a bottle in the refrigerator for up to 10 days.
Serve over ice in rocks glasses.

Nutrition

Chef’s Note

If you’re adding this to a dessert, make sure its not being added to anything with an acidic ingredient. Doing so will curdle the cream, leaving you with an unpleasant texture and flavor.

How to Store

Serve: Because of the dairy in this recipe, you shouldn’t leave Baileys Irish Cream sitting out at room temperature for more than 2 hours, or it will go bad.
Store: To keep the recipe fresh, store it in a glass bottle or another airtight container. Kept sealed and chilled in the fridge, the drink recipe can stay good for up to 10 days.
Freeze: You shouldn’t freeze Baileys. Unfortunately, rich ingredients like heavy whipping cream won’t maintain their consistency when frozen, and it won’t go back to its original form when thawed.

Variations

Peppermint Baileys: To make a Baileys Irish Cream recipe perfect for the holiday season, you can add delicious peppermint flavor to the mixture. After adding the traditional ingredients, mix in peppermint extract. Because the extract has quite a strong flavor, you’ll want to be careful not to add too much. Start with just a teaspoon and see how you like the taste before adding more.
Baileys Salted Caramel: Salted Caramel is a popular flavor of Irish Cream. To make this homemade version with the caramel flavor, you can add caramel syrup along with the chocolate syrup.
More flavors: There are plenty of flavor extracts that you could try adding to this recipe. A teaspoon almond extract, orange extract, vanilla extract, raspberry extract, or mint extract would all taste amazing. You could also add a little cinnamon and nutmeg for a spiced flavor.
Vegan Irish Cream: Just because you’re keeping a vegan diet doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy this delicious drink. Hershey’s chocolate syrup is already vegan, so the only ingredients you have to replace are the heavy cream and sweetened condensed milk. To get the right creamy texture for your vegan version, use a combination of full-fat coconut cream and your favorite non-dairy milk, like almond milk, oat milk, or soy milk.